
Patrick Kidd
@patrick_kidd
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Scribbler for whoever will pay me. Author of The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics: https://t.co/zg1eoouBh6. Also churchwarden at @asblackheath
Joined March 2011
RT @SarahDuggers: @patrick_kidd I used to have a boyfriend who lived there and it’s all fun and games until you have to phone in to a new j….
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RT @NewsUKArchives: @patrick_kidd from The Times archive a pic: Duchess of York, with the Duke of York at the Civil service Regatta at Eel….
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An excellent side sport has broken out at Henley Regatta, where men often outpeacock women: trousers snooker. Is there also a blazer/tie version? Remenham would run up quite a large break just with one pair of socks.
For the start of today's racing, we are beginning a game of trouser snooker! The rules of the game: white (0), red (1), yellow (2), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6), and then black trousers (7). Updates to come!.
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Last Friday I became president of @OldColcestrians, yesterday @crgscc won their first match at the Royal Grammar Schools Cricket Festival since 2017. A coincidence? Well, obviously. But I’m delighted for them. Must have been inspired by hearing me talk about making a catch once….
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It was British discipline and drumstick moustaches vs American razzmatazz and pom-poms as seven marching bands of different styles paraded and competed at Hampton Court to close London Band Week. My latest Sketches of London dispatch for @thetimes.
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Viewed from afar, the Matterhorn looks compact but up close it's "like a croissant; on the surface everything is falling apart". A fascinating and concerning piece by @GWhittell on how the Alps are melting.
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RT @pjmeade: @patrick_kidd @ObserverUK I was saddened to hear that Fingers has gone to the great pavilion in the sky. I first met him when….
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The Lord’s Test will not look the same again. Wrote this @ObserverUK obituary on John “Fingers” Fingleton, a celebrated charity auctioneer with loud opinions and louder blazers but whose heart was in the right place. A legend in his own lunchtime.
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RT @patrick_kidd: It takes 20 gardeners, 31 ground staff, 40 physios, 280 ball boys and girls, 300 chefs, 12,000 petunias, 300,000 glasses….
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It takes 20 gardeners, 31 ground staff, 40 physios, 280 ball boys and girls, 300 chefs, 12,000 petunias, 300,000 glasses of Pimm's and 2.5 million strawberries to put on Wimbledon for 42,000 spectators a day. My behind the scenes piece with @MarcAspland .
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RT @patrick_kidd: My weekend athletic endeavour is now online. I took part in the @BromptonBicycle World Championships, a gloriously batty….
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My weekend athletic endeavour is now online. I took part in the @BromptonBicycle World Championships, a gloriously batty contest in which you begin by unfolding your bicycle (which is one reason why I got lapped twice) and Lycra is strictly banned.
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